Many of the commercial enterprisey tools/components/servers available today major on WYSIWYG, point click, drag drop style development. Which is great, I’m all up for labour saving tools and flashy sales presentations. I can open an IDE (usually Eclipse with plugins) and get going creating an Orchestration, ESB routing path, Portal portlet, Rule Flow, you name it.
However,… when the dust settles there are broadly 2 major problems with the current implementations of these Enterprisey Tools.
So here is my plea to the tools industry (you know who you are):
Update: whilst trying to find my way through the borkedness of one product I stumbled upon this blog entry describing some of the problems I am hitting with one product. This article was written in Nov-2004 and it seems that things have moved on very little since then. BEA, in this case, still use OS environment variables such as CLASSPATH and PATH rather than allowing them to be specified at the task level in an ant way. They still bundle a whole lot of crap in their weblogic.jar and reference still more from the manifest that confuses builds. Why is the ant API included in their server environment classpath?!
A great article on why Reddit is better than Digg. I almost completely agree with the article, Digg has become a very bland place. Interesting articles are discovered make the front page get noticed by the unwashed and modded down as spam or ‘lame’. Reddit on the other hand doesn’t put the power of censorship in the hands of the minority and so these small groups cannot get articles removed from the front page.
I have really cut down on the visits I make to Digg because most of the time the articles there are fairly low brow (how many more 50 CSS tricks articles can there be? How many ‘hilarious’ Colbert sketches must we be subjected to?). Nope Reddit is for me at least for now.
Just a short post to say that those who don’t read xkcd should. It calls itself “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” and is very funny if you are technically inclined.
So Mr Jones has decided to blog-tag me, thanks. I guess this will get the Google Juice flowing if nothing else.
I have decided to decrease the number from 5 to 3 for two reasons, I’m lazy and it keeps things interesting (read: I’m lazy and not very interesting).
3 things:
Ant P. > How fast is it against MyISAM?
greg1104 > I’ve managed to get my PostgreSQL installation tuned to very high speeds simply by switching the database disk over to /dev/null. It runs fast as hell, and the data integrity is basically the same as MyISAM.
(via tabo @ aureal via Slashdot)
I recently noticed that 25% of the users on The Humor Archives where using Firefox. I got to wondering how and when Firefox had picked up quite so many users so I grabed the raw figures from my log analyser packaged and using JFreeCharts I slung the below graph together.
and so it seems that not only has the percentage of Firefox users been increasing for the last 2.5 year but the rate of increase in the percentage of users has also been increasing. However I wanted to get a worse case senerio of when Firefox would overtake Microsoft Internet Explorer. To get the worst case I plotted a linear regression to forecast the growth. I then messed around with various other regressions to see what more optimistic regressions gave. The results are below.
| regression type | overtake date |
|---|---|
| linear | December 2007 |
| logarithmic | December 2007 |
| exponetial | July 2006 |
Now my University Mathematics lecturers would probably turn in their sandals at the mathematic rigour of my analysis as it is only based on one website with just 4,000,000 page views per month however it does give some indication of when Firefox will eventually take over as the dominant browser.